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- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
spent the money to fly the New Zealanders to Boston to transfer their tacit knowledge in person. John Seely Brown, former head of Xerox's famous Palo Alto Research Center,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
faculty members Leemore S. Dafny, Zoë B. Cullen, Christopher T. Stanton, and doctoral student Yin Wei Soon. Their paper was published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine’s Catalyst. “Absent... View Details
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
talent to draw from, write the authors of a recent working paper titled Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups. This has important implications, says Shai Bernstein, an... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
standards of U.S. firms. The SEC should also be granted the resources to more systematically verify the accuracy View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
Journal of Labor Economics. Perhaps more than any other profession, we hold religious leaders above such base incentives as money. At the same time, it's View Details
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
important than citizens of other nations. This is true in terms of jobs, the value of life, and across many realms. Like our other prejudices,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
individuals identified as likely to defect. The tricky part comes in figuring out exactly who should be targeted. “You have to look at the net profitability of View Details
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
Silverthorne: Before we talk about your advice, I should note that most of our readers aren’t accounting PhDs. Do you think some of your tips could serve job seekers in other endeavors? Rouen: My first tip... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
a social impact mission. Having a social mission is not the only way that entrepreneurs can connect with potential investors and employees. Communities based around a sport or a common connection such as a... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
upcoding, he estimated the extent of potential overstatement based on the hospitals' detailed patient records. Controlling for other differences... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
development is a drawn-out process of trial and error, often ping-ponging between manufacturer and customer. First, the manufacturer develops a prototype based on information... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
immigration as one of the ways to keep the population base at its size or greater, and even better if that can be a skilled workforce." Bitter... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
every part of the business and set targets and rewarded based on those targets. "Our model is that if we do a good job for our customers, they will recommend us to others, and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
and strategy with an emphasis on environmental management, Reinhardt recently shared his expertise with HBS alumni during reunion weekend. His talk, titled "Down to Earth: Applying Basic Business Principles to Environmental Management," is also View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
Until the close of the last decade, health consumers received much of their knowledge and advice about prescription drugs from their physicians... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
immense cost to individuals, and the economy in general, of a loss of trust in our business institutions and those who lead them. We know a few things on which to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
worth thinking about as we go forward. The most interesting was that of Armando del Bosque, who asked, "How about reversing the causality? Does Social Equality Improve... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
even more specific and linked to the performance of individual directors. Some large pension funds like CalPERS, as well as some smaller, socially based funds, are moving in... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
does not reinvent the wheel. We just want to make sure that it is rolled more effectively by both sides of the aisle. The calculations in this... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
resides in the availability of gold standards. Competitions are based on comparison of a submission to some objective correct answer. In many... View Details